# Amazon Translate vs Lokalise (slim)

> Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Amazon Translate's 69.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Amazon Translate leads on reliability, schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes…

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Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Amazon Translate's 69.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Amazon Translate leads on reliability, schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do translate text.

- Amazon Translate: B 69.5, rank #154 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.min.md
- Lokalise: BB 71.3, rank #115 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lokalise.min.md
- Amazon Translate, good for Operators already on AWS who want translation inside IAM and CloudTrail, with S3 batch jobs and terminology files. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 84; Schema & documentation, 90 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 69.
- Lokalise, good for Agents that manage localisation work, such as adding keys, uploading and exporting string files, keeping a glossary and starting AI or machine translation tasks for a team that already uses Lokalise. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 84 against 25; Transparency & trust, 81 against 69. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amazon Translate | Lokalise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 84 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Translate | Lokalise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Lokalise, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.lokalise.com/api2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Price for translate text | $15 per 1M characters | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Lokalise Master Service Agreement. The CLI and the Node SDK on GitHub are BSD 3-Clause |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2023-10-31 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2025-11-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-03-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 601k npm/wk | 124 stars, 338k npm/wk, 39k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |